The only group of foreigners to have the remotest claim to "nativeness" were the The Samanids (819-999), who were the first in centuries to use Farsi as an official language in centuries and they hired the poet Ferdowsi to write the Persian national epic, Shahnama: The Epic of the KIngs which has been the core of Persian education ever since.

I suspect there is some truth in the matter, but I can only note that it is an Asterix comic (where everything is a caricature) and that a reaction such as that of my Viennese friend is to be expected from natives the world over encountering a portrayal of that nativeness (to emphasize the critic's nativeness).

Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the, so called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan æra: and, on grounds of plain sense and universal logic, to see and assert the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness, both of their thoughts and diction.

The author of the 2009 Oxford University Press book Invasion Biology,'' Davis has been a leader in the small but vocal group of thinkers who argue that nativeness is simply the wrong lens to use when we think about the environment.

Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the, so called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan aera: and on grounds of plain sense and universal logic to see and assert the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness both of their thoughts and diction.